it's. not like. the week's top stories here on our t.v. no sight of the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden while america's pursuit of the almost cia man tested diplomatic relations with all countries involved in his global movements. and snowden the latest revelations point to a massive u.s. nuclear operation targeting e.u. institutions in brussels and washington and the united nations in new york. egypt's president faces a tough challenge to his leadership with an angry crowd set to flood the streets on the first anniversary of his inauguration after a week of deadly writing by rival political factions. in the first of a much anticipated addition to russia's navy set sail for france in a joint project expected to revitalize ties between the two nations.

welcome you're watching the weekly here in our take with me. the diplomatic spat continues over america's most wanted man edward snowden he's believed to have been stranded in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport for a week now with no valid passport and no confirmed offer of asylum from any country artist the band not say has this report. bunnings and snowden i'm twenty nine years old as soon as edward snowden revealed himself as the whistle he set off a catch me if you can hunt by the u.s. government want to get him caught and away is he now guessing game for the media so where is it after a tip off that snowden was on board

a flight from hong kong to moscow the media started speculating as to his next move edward snowden slew from hong kong to mosco say that he will be on the have on the flight. the situation descended into a fog when a crowd of journalists boarded a flight from moscow to havana only to find that the whistleblower was not on board a presumed to be stuck in an airport transit date tonight it's not clear where it would snowden is there's a couple assertions the accused n.s.a. leaker was expected on a flight from moscow to cuba but he never boarded the plane but with no word from the whistleblower and no sighting it was all just a guessing game thought it was still possible snowden would board the plane somewhere on the tomah he didn't and we took off without him so we committed to a twelve hour plus flight that was essentially a waste of time the global public city had turned one of america's always wanted men into a hero for some of the others i think is

a traitor i think he has. committed crimes and in fact by violating agreements given the position he had. several countries have been tangled up in this case so with the veiled threats from washington and back and forth rhetoric we've registered objections to the authorities in hong kong as well as to the chinese government through diplomatic channels and we know that such behavior is done detrimental to us hong kong and us china bilateral relations you know it would be deeply troubling obviously if they have adequate notice notwithstanding that. as for the possibility of extradition we can only hand over foreign state nationals today states that we have a relevant violates international agreement on the extradition of criminals we do not have any such treaty signed with the united states but for ecuador a potential asylum destination was no then things have moved beyond mere rhetoric the countries we've described

a trade agreement with the us risking economic losses standing its ground in the face of america's pressure added his government is also said to be divided the safe passage document dated twenty second of june obtained by weeklies will snowden from the ecuadorian embassy in london was not authorized with branches of the ecuadorian government i know it that assad was now running the show for the delaying his asylum request meanwhile the mystery continues as to snowden is the next move he's now waiting at present korea to make a decision on the asylum application without a pressure from the u.s. also him not to grant it the door in president also said that the media attention surrounding snowden has actually diverted from the real story that of the n.s.a. surveillance documents but by snowden's own admission this was never going to be a story with a fairy tale ending you can't come forward against the world's most powerful

intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk to bungle day r.t. moscow. human rights activist peter tatchell says america is showing think hypocrisy in its handling of snowden. this is rogue spying by a rogue state i mean if it was it would snowden had been and a rainy and whistle blower who exposed global snooping by the terran regime i think he would have been hailed by the united states as a horowitz whistleblower he would have been lauded and. i think the united states has incredible double standards it is pursuing a man who is motivated not by hatred of his country not by any financial gain it is that he's not out to aid any enemy country he is motivated by idealism and a belief in the human rights that we all have a right to privacy. while edward snowden's latest revelations a bank u.s.

surveillance point to a far reaching spying operation targeting the european union with institutions bugs and computer networks hacked the story broken by the news magazine to speak is based on a classified n.s.a. document from twenty ten artie's peter oliver has the details. what's the the the documents that says that they received through edward snowden we're able to see part of says is that the national security agency were well spying on the e.u. just about everywhere they could that they were tapping phones they were hacking their computer networks at the un in washington d.c. also that they were booking premises in brussels and carrying out the same type of . phone tapping and computer hacking there as well germany came out as one of the countries that was most on as part of this prism operation by the n.s.a.

now one interesting part of this article says that you were a target a definite target for this type of surveillance and also says that five years ago the e.u. itself had looked into phone calls that had been made to them had traced phone calls apparently back to a n.s.a. office that was based inside the nato compound in brussels so they certainly had suspected that they were under sort of thing suspecting that somebody is watching you to then finding out through these type of leaked documents that they certainly were watching you and just how closely they were watching you indeed. the news the former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament explains why he thinks the us change the it's a close ally as a target. my educated guess is that this has or having to do with economic spying on the e.u. the e.u.'s for example is stronger than ever militarily even technologically i mean

the internet is an american invention but on the economic level it is losing ground everywhere see what the brics countries there are doing there the e.u. is adding strong which i would rush with the africa with latin america and the u.s. doesn't seem to get its economic. priorities imposed as it used to so i would a series here is a big risk for economic spineless. while the u.s. government maintains that its controversial prison surveillance program is essential for national security but as r.t. said in english to reports the electronic snooping operation is not as powerful as it might seem. and there is suppose a quest for preventing terror attacks and increasing security prism only gathers data from the internet big players such as google sky facebook and so on but most of those who look forward to hottest or terrorist related information can find it only on the appropriate forums which are hidden deep within the so-called under web

none of these resources in that realm are actually indexed by the major search engines in fact google how that one point admitted that it indexes a tiny fraction of just one percent of all data that's available on the web if you imagine it as an iceberg that you can understand that prism only covers the very top the very tip of the iceberg the rest of the information is actually not covered by prism according to dutch intelligence service but sensual terrorists go to these core forums which are highly encrypted and hidden deep within the web so one really needs to know what they're looking for and where to find it a case in point could be the brothers they have turned to one of the war no radical sources sometimes referred to as the vanity fair of al qaida though the web site existence is no secret for some reason u.s. security services failed to track down the brothers activity even after a tip off from russia and thereby they failed to prevent the boston bombings so although the cia and the n.s.a.

say their surveillance programs are directed at protecting people it seems like they're too busy reading innocent people's e-mails. well you're watching the weekly here in r.t. in the still plenty more to come this hour including an unwelcome return fears and the u.s. protests barack obama on his second visit to africa as washington's policies on the continent grow increasingly unpopular. it's been exactly one year since egypt's president mohamed morsi took office and the country is now bracing itself for its biggest anti-government protests in months the unrest has been building up over the past week and has brought deadly chaos to egypt's biggest cities artie's belt true but the people at the grassroots of the dissent. every day. a new. justice cairo's tahrir square his latest to mock nationwide protests sunday is in

support of tomorrow to meaning rebel a grassroots campaign collecting signatures calling for the resignation of president mohamed morsi. as a citizen i just want food health services and education we don't have instead morsi gave his just three pieces of bread a day you can see by his belly he eats term in one meal. like many threw his support behind tomorrow which is over eighteen million signatures they hope to install a transitional government and early presidential elections tomorrow a person's writings committee found the prospect not everyone believes the president morsi to step down however the campaign has highlighted the problems in egypt's economy is in freefall as a questioning fuel and water shortages and a bread crisis on the horizon rights groups say that abuses and torture are rampant meanwhile the government continues to restrict basic freedoms. sentenced to prison

for working for pro-democracy and egypt says the explosion of post revolution groups involved in civic engagement like tomorrow has been matched by government crackdowns you have activists being arrested campaign and and other areas you've had bad buildings they ransacked and it's sort of continuing on with this conspiracy that's pushed by the by the government and by state activists against the people to imply that the civil side to threaten our national security muslim brotherhood officials for their part have said that many of those coming out on june thirtieth of talks and the problem is egypt predate that president. thirty years of dictatorship of course. still we are suffering so we need. people can judge really if you could really deal with these troubles alone however millions agree that morsi should be blamed over they still have to strike an accord as to what exactly they want to replace him with tomorrow maybe people or idea

around it today those are called the thirtieth of june front they've decided that they want to go with this political map that involves an includes the military for instance for internal security and this is something that others like me and other movements as well totally disagree with so you will have these two different views coming up and in the future what ever the president's reaction to the mass protest movement it's clear that it's not going to beit with june thirtieth set to become one of the biggest challenges yet to egypt's beleaguered leader true for our team. while a group of secular leaning deputies have resigned from egypt's parliament in support of the ongoing opposition rallies side today from the american university in cairo believes another uprising could be imminent is the president hasn't delivered on his promises. the president one is is not the all knowing the objectives of the

revolution two he was considered a thing his only good at the expense of the national interests of the country and also defense that. if the dog if he remained silent on him is still in forty years egypt would become like somalia or sudan there are looking for egypt would be there's absolutely sure that is going to be hijacked like what happened in the reagan revolution by those islamists who wanted the society to sleep and stay put and do not intervene and lives in what they want the who on the upswing is about pouring into account the government and now before you have to call the account the president because of the one you know he failed to deliver what people expect. we're going to take a short break now but i'll be back with more nice and company.

you have these use a small story to share prime i would even say a story of terror and mass times like spying and persecution and restrictions and definite detentions being on the rise how do you explain these paradox one thing we do know about them pi is this stuff they will collapse with the exception this street is brutally.

welcome back now this week so a new milestone in relations between moscow and paris is the student of russia's first class how the cops a carrier was launched in st pete is the first part of the long awaited addition to the country's navy will not travel to france to be completed. was at the launch. was it do you think. that maybe it. was a really fine film front. according to the deal signed two years ago this shipyard in st petersburg will play

a vital role in the fabrication of vessels the section built here will soon had to france for completion before making the return journey to enter the service and russia's navy although there's no champagne available to celebrate here today because a bottle of it was just smashed on a new shape or other on this section of a new ship it's still a big day for a big ship as law on the mistral cost warships have enough capacity to carry sixteen helicopters up to forty tanks or armored vehicles and around six hundred troops and a range of around forty thousand kilometers they will end over a single trip around the entire globe and what's even maybe more important it is a multipurpose vessel if. this ship is like a swiss knife it can be used both for military and civilian purposes it's a hospital it's a command point it's an assault ship and it's a headquarters we would be great for each of our four fleets to have the ship however the purchase of the two ships is not without its critics some of russia's

own ship builders complain the fronts put a huge order to sort of the mastic shipyards they also say the deal has more political than economic benefits it's just recently emerged that the two miss truck lost warships will not be able to operate in russia's bison winters without special lubricants that means more expense for the navy and dependence on a foreign supply chain others argue it's a win win situation for both countries france gets an order worth over a billion euro which will keep many of its ship builders in business more important now than ever because of the ongoing euro zone crisis while russia gets a warship that will considerably boost its military capacity and also gains access to a very latest naval technology the first ship is expected to join russia's navy by the end of next year with another one to follow and as to whether this one deal. closer ties with paris moscow will simply have to wait to see which way the wind

blows now if not our team st petersburg. america's list of most wanted terrorists has just got a little shorter as we report on our website find out a somali group linked to al qaeda lost its top commander is one of them with a five million dollars u.s. bank on his head with american forces having to lift a finger that's on our web site also there you'll find. video game magic comes to the aid of real life rescuers it's been used to create cyborg cockroaches we explain how they could be vital help in this disaster site you can read about that at our go. right the bomber's ongoing visit to africa his first since two thousand and nine has seen the u.s. president renew his promises to help the continent's people but he's been met with protesters angry at unfulfilled pledges he made last time around washington has

slashed aid to africa while stepping up unpopular military activity in the region obama's visit is also being seen as an attempt to retake the initiative from africa's top trading partner china as r.t. . reports right now africa is in the center of america's so-called war on terror we hear about new drone bases popping up on the african continent in countries whose governments we see aid from the us in one form or another we hear about the u.s. arming and training security forces in a number of states in africa then we learn how some of those forces commit most horrible atrocities and get the u.s. doesn't stop to take a second look at who they empower just a few most recent examples say you when we poor found us train troops in congo guilty of mass rape and other trustees human rights watch released a report documenting the abuse rape and torture of at least. one thousand somali refugees by u.s.

backed kenyan police forces this follows a report by the open society justice initiative that connected u.s. counterterrorism sense and influence to systematic human rights abuses in kenya and uganda then you have secretary of state john kerry himself expressing quote deep concern around human rights abuses committed by the nigerian military a major us count to tear apart his statement says gross human rights violations committed by nigerian security forces only escalate the violence and fuel extremism washington sees what's going on but does it really change their calculations i spoke with the editor of pan african newswire by you know me as. they may say that they are there to enhance the african states national security capacity but we know from the history of the united states that they do nothing and regard their foreign policy if there is no real strategic interest for the united states. of course maintain relations with all these different african states and at the same time to

edge out the people's republic of china which is pretty sort of them out. in africa just over the last few years that china has become the number one trading partner of the african union in africa is an extraordinary rich continent the chase for terrorists may not be the only reason the u.s. wants to have as much presence as possible there take a listen to what mr as he was said about that many of the countries in west africa a large or produce for example nigeria which is the largest u.s. importer. of oil into the united states from africa and east africa there been a huge finding. of all that natural gas all along the eastern coast of africa from somalia. all the way down to tanzania so this in my opinion

explains why we have this escalation of u.s. military intervention on the african continent so backlash in the form of extremism on the one end of the scale and tangible benefits on the other that could be the dilemma that the u.s. is weighing in africa now but as we've seen reports about gross human rights violations haven't stopped us from partnering up with chronic lead use of governments in washington i'm going to check out. south african politicians sali my pilot says america's pursuit of its economic interests comes at a heavy price for the people of africa but we feel that they express that in our programs. for these things based on these numbers up a couple of months. it's an indication of where u.s. interest on the front of good clinton and we want him to stop that and also. the military bases all over the way that the u.s. has court in order that you can have. well it's kind of diplomatic relations as

well as creative nations where not this sort of those opposed to a system where the government getting through the usa on trade relations but let's say they must be cautious about this because this is usually a balance between which has in the u.s. and particularly noting that. there is more than ten times the g.d.p. of the african continent so these. are. rights to a democratic dispensation on the continent and development that many african government may seek to choose for themselves. britain has signaled a change in its attitude to the taliban in afghan in afghanistan and is now urging the militant group to end the political process prime minister david cameron made a surprise visit to the country on saturday afghan president hamid karzai says he's still willing to talk to the taliban despite an attack on the presidential palace

early this week the incident on cheese day once again put peace negotiations in danger of being told washington is hardly preparing for a troop withdrawal at the end of next year having failed to bring stability to the nation after almost twelve years of war jerry vandyke former t.v. correspondent and if an expert believes it would be hard to pacify the militants originally we went into afghanistan solely to destroy to dismantle to destroy if you will the taliban government and to destroy the al qaeda this war has morphed into has evolved into a war against the taliban the taliban as the military will tell you are on the ascendancy they are not losing they're willing to they're willing to continue to go forward well then in proclaiming to the world that they are a sovereign nation by calling themselves islamic emirate of afghanistan that they will not negotiate as long as any troops are left any foreign troops are left to afghanistan so how do you say you're going to win if you're going to leave and you

haven't won the war so you have two governments you have the government of afghanistan and in the eyes of the world this is a separate government of the taliban the president of afghanistan and the people you know what this. new discussion show worlds apart is next here and not. anyone who lives in the us knows that the i.r.s. does not play around one honest or dishonest mistake could get you in a lot of trouble even a longtime friend of mine got his entire life savings destroyed due to some simple honest error you think that workers in an organization that could punish you for your financial failings would be very sharp with their own money but that's sadly not the case according to an audit report from the treasury inspector general for tax administration at the very least one thousand iris employees have abused the

charge cards they were issued to cover their official travel expenses some of these people are very high in the letter including an executive level official a criminal investigator and multiple deployers with security clearances much of the abuses related to employees writing checks for big purchases which later bounced due to accounts being empty yeah the people who could ruin your life for one little financial folly seem to have no problem over drawing while they are living it up on taxpayer funded travel to keep things in perspective the iris is a huge organization so one thousand abusers is a minority but in the spirit of fairness i think these card abusers should be punished just as harshly as normal people who run afoul of the i.r.s. but that's just my opinion.

hello welcome to the party you know that continuously islamic law like the land of the free because what it's like in. the meantime to tell the. i'm joined by we can't be found here on the baby's body thank you very much we answer now first of all i would like to ask you a question about shame i know that one of the reasons you are named your party the pirate party was because some of your critics really tried to put you to shame and i guess to undermine what you were doing at the time and i think in the coverage of the snowden affair shaming and ad hominem attacks are very very prominent we've already heard all sorts of supposedly compromising details about his personal lives that he hasn't finished high school that his former girlfriend was a stripper and so on rather than focusing on this substance of his revelations why

is that anything. that is very typical when a scandal like this surfaces rather than trying to answer the questions. of very much raised by snowden's revelations about what the united states is actually up to the. surveillance hawks in the united states security. is doing everything it can to divert the attention from what's really important here and instead talk about the personal details of edward snowden what is it issue is that the united states has been betraying the trust of pretty much the entire world now what do you think what do you think is so significant about his revelations because in the words of one commentator we haven't really learned anything that we didn't suspect before right with your son no you could see the the you.